Junior

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Junior comes from the Latin for "younger".

It may refer to:

• Junior (suffix) (usually "Jr"), the suffix given to a child with the same name as a parent (typically a son and father)
• Atlético Junior, a football (AFL) team from Barranquilla, Colombia
• Junior (chess), a world-champion chess program
• Junior ice hockey, ice hockey league for players under 21
• Scottish Junior Football Association, lower division football in Scotland (not age restricted)
• Junior tennis, tennis for players under 18
• Junior high school, another name for a Middle school, school between elementary school and high school, sometimes also called intermediate school
• Junior school, school for children about 6 to 11 in Australia, Ireland, and the UK
• High school junior, (USA) student in eleventh grade
• A student in the third year at a college or university in the United States is called a junior. See Junior (education).
• Junior senator, the senator from a state with lesser seniority
• Junior (album), an album by electronic music duo Röyksopp
• Junior (band), a pop music punk band from Texas
• Junior, television channel, part of the German Premiere (pay television network)#Premiere_Familie specializing in television programming for children

To the following people, as a surname:

• Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Brazilian football (soccer) playera Brazilian football (soccer) player who played in the 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cups.
• Júnior Baiano (Raimundo Ferreira Ramos Júnior), Brazilian football (soccer) player in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The Demonym Baiano indicates his birth in the Bahia state.
• Jenílson Ângelo de Souza known as Júnior, Brazilian football (soccer) player who played in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
• Roque Júnior, José Vítor Roque Júnior, Brazilian football (soccer) player who played in the 2002 FIFA World Cup
• José Júnior, José Luiz Guimarães Sanabio Júnior, Brazilian football (soccer) player playing in FC Copenhagen
• Manoel de Oliveira da Silva Júnior, Brazilian footballer
• Fábio Júnior Pereira, Brazilian football (soccer) player currently with Hapoel Tel Aviv.
• Carlos de Jésus Junior, Brazilian football (soccer) player who played in Germany with Kaiserslautern and Nuremberg

Among specific people, as a nickname:

• Dale Earnhardt, Jr., an American NASCAR driver.
• Ken Griffey, Jr., a baseball player.
• Junior Giscombe, an 80's British R&B singer/songwriter.
• Junior Reid, a Jamaican reggae singer.
• "Junior Coghlan" used by film actor Frank Coghlan Jr.

Use in fiction:

• Junior (film), a 1994 comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Jr. (Xenosaga), a character in the Xenosaga game series.
• In Fraggle Rock, the name of the Gorgs' son
• A character on Reno 911!, Travis Junior, portrayed by Robert Ben Garant
• The name of the child character in the movie Problem Child
• The codename of a atomic bomb in the novel series Island by Gordon Korman

[edit] See also

• Senior

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